Snakes work very, very hard to shed their skin. It’s just as hard for us to get rid of constraining ideas and notions about the world.
The other side invests trillions of dollars world-wide to separate people from God and from life. Can any of us imagine the decibel rating of the “ka-ching!” that it takes to buy a billionaire’s soul?
Catholic Fundamentalism, with one sentence, “God can program particles, compile them into structures and beings, and put them into motion.” offers an invalidation of every God-minimizing teaching that the forces of death and slavery have ever taught.
Study and thought make that umbrella-sentence increase in size so that we see all Creation fitting under it. The fact is that all Creation does fit beneath it. Though this thought comes from, and is important to, Catholic Fundamentalism, any religion can say that about any God.
Fundamentalism, by itself, does not make ultimate sense without the Roman Catholic Church.
St. Thomas Aquinas taught that there are two sources of knowledge, intellect and Scripture. Scripture is the most important, and the writings that compile it were selected by the collective mind of The Roman Catholic Church in council.
Therefore, only the Roman Catholic Church has brought human intellect and Divine Scripture together. Only the Roman Catholic Church could hold minds like those possessed by Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham, and all the other great minds who freely knelt before the majesty of The Church.
There is no “ka-ching!” when any human being moves closer to The Roman Catholic Church. There are vows of poverty underlying it, so there can no financial rewards.
There is something more.
Godspeed, pilgrim.
